https://aiweekly.co/alerts/in-nature-seth-block-and-tononi-argue-ai-isnt-conscious AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T15:12:01+00:00 In Nature, Seth, Block and Tononi argue AI isn't conscious https://aiweekly.co/alerts/ferguson-and-schmidt-cast-ai-as-an-imperial-technology AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T15:12:01+00:00 Ferguson and Schmidt cast AI as an imperial technology https://aiweekly.co/alerts/anthropic-lobbied-vatican-to-soften-popes-ai-encyclical AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T15:12:01+00:00 Anthropic Lobbied Vatican to Soften Pope's AI Encyclical https://aiweekly.co/alerts/seth-block-and-tononi-ai-isnt-conscious-may-never-be AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T15:12:01+00:00 Seth, Block and Tononi: AI isn't conscious, may never be https://aiweekly.co/alerts/iceland-paper-human-grammar-tests-misread-llms-authors-argue AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T15:12:01+00:00 Iceland Paper: Human Grammar Tests Misread LLMs, Authors Argue https://aiweekly.co/alerts/openai-takes-chatgpt-ads-to-89-countries-100000-advertisers AI Weekly 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Weekly en 2026-10-21T09:12:02+00:00 Nature paper retrofits Olmo and Qwen into byte-level LLMs https://aiweekly.co/alerts/byteification-retrofits-subword-llms-to-run-on-raw-bytes AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T09:12:02+00:00 Byteification retrofits subword LLMs to run on raw bytes https://aiweekly.co/alerts/nature-paper-byteifies-olmo-qwen-llama-into-byte-level-llms AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T09:12:02+00:00 Nature paper byteifies OLMo, Qwen, Llama into byte-level LLMs https://aiweekly.co/alerts/nature-paper-retrofits-olmo-qwen3-llama-to-byte-level-llms AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T09:12:02+00:00 Nature paper retrofits OLMo, Qwen3, Llama to byte-level LLMs https://aiweekly.co/alerts/nature-paper-retrofits-subword-llms-to-operate-on-bytes AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T09:12:02+00:00 Nature paper retrofits subword LLMs to operate on bytes https://aiweekly.co/alerts/byteification-retrofits-subword-llms-to-run-on-raw-bytes AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T09:12:02+00:00 Byteification retrofits subword LLMs to run on raw bytes https://aiweekly.co/alerts/byteification-retrofits-llama-3-qwen3-at-under-1-cost AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T09:12:02+00:00 'Byteification' retrofits Llama 3, Qwen3 at under 1% cost https://aiweekly.co/alerts/openevidence-says-its-ai-reaches-two-thirds-of-us-doctors AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T08:09:39+00:00 OpenEvidence Says Its AI Reaches Two-Thirds of US Doctors https://aiweekly.co/alerts/simular-agent-s4-evolves-interfaces-beats-opus-48-on-osworld AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T08:09:39+00:00 Simular Agent S4 Evolves Interfaces, Beats Opus 4.8 on OSWorld https://aiweekly.co/alerts/specter-moe-system-reports-188x-peak-single-gpu-speedup AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T08:09:39+00:00 Specter MoE System Reports 1.88x Peak Single-GPU Speedup https://aiweekly.co/alerts/nvidia-jca-co-generates-3d-motion-and-video-for-any-rig AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T08:09:39+00:00 Nvidia JCA Co-Generates 3D Motion and Video for Any Rig https://aiweekly.co/alerts/zero-shot-27b-vlm-ties-supervised-8b-reranker-on-visual-docs 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Hundreds of Millions in Firmus After $5B IPO Pulled https://aiweekly.co/alerts/spacex-tesla-boards-form-independent-panels-to-weigh-merger AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T00:46:34+00:00 SpaceX, Tesla Boards Form Independent Panels to Weigh Merger https://aiweekly.co/alerts/delangue-says-netflix-ai-gone-rogue-doc-went-full-doomer-mode AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T00:46:34+00:00 Delangue Says Netflix 'AI Gone Rogue' Doc Went 'Full Doomer Mode' https://aiweekly.co/alerts/seth-block-and-tononi-argue-in-nature-that-ai-isnt-conscious AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T00:12:01+00:00 Seth, Block and Tononi argue in Nature that AI isn't conscious https://aiweekly.co/alerts/seth-block-and-tononi-ai-isnt-conscious-probably-wont-be AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T00:12:01+00:00 Seth, Block and Tononi: AI isn't conscious, probably won't be https://aiweekly.co/alerts/mas-bai-lifts-bleu-811-on-bowen-script-bai-translation AI Weekly en 2026-10-21T00:12:01+00:00 MAS-Bai lifts BLEU 8.11 on Bowen-script Bai translation 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https://aiweekly.co/alerts/chatgpt-adds-pin-locked-chats-not-end-to-end-encrypted AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T21:12:02+00:00 ChatGPT adds PIN-locked chats, not end-to-end encrypted https://aiweekly.co/alerts/seth-block-tononi-ai-isnt-conscious-perhaps-never-will-be AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T21:12:02+00:00 Seth, Block, Tononi: AI isn't conscious, perhaps never will be https://aiweekly.co/alerts/seth-block-and-tononi-argue-in-nature-ai-isnt-conscious AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T21:12:02+00:00 Seth, Block and Tononi argue in Nature AI isn't conscious https://aiweekly.co/alerts/lawfare-essay-dissects-four-ai-kill-switch-proposals AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T21:12:02+00:00 Lawfare essay dissects four AI 'kill switch' proposals https://aiweekly.co/alerts/deepseek-v41-flash-lands-as-us-and-china-tighten-ai-controls AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T21:12:02+00:00 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash lands as US and China tighten AI controls https://aiweekly.co/alerts/google-opens-torchtpu-to-pull-pytorch-developers-off-cuda AI 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SNAP's Holmes ruling as staffing failure https://aiweekly.co/alerts/brookings-fellows-urge-schools-to-ban-student-generative-ai AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T18:12:01+00:00 Brookings fellows urge schools to ban student generative AI https://aiweekly.co/alerts/ai-generated-emily-blunt-fronts-2100-site-recipe-scam-ring AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T18:12:01+00:00 AI-generated Emily Blunt fronts 2,100-site recipe scam ring https://aiweekly.co/alerts/eric-gordon-ai-wont-rebuild-public-trust-without-listening AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T18:12:01+00:00 Eric Gordon: AI won't rebuild public trust without listening https://aiweekly.co/alerts/simbes-tally-robots-roll-into-la-ralphs-ufcw-pushes-back AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T18:12:01+00:00 Simbe's Tally robots roll into L.A. Ralphs; UFCW pushes back https://aiweekly.co/alerts/seth-block-tononi-argue-ai-isnt-conscious-may-never-be AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T18:12:01+00:00 Seth, Block, Tononi argue AI isn't conscious, may never be https://aiweekly.co/alerts/seth-block-tononi-ai-isnt-conscious-perhaps-never-will-be AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T18:12:01+00:00 Seth, Block, Tononi: AI isn't conscious, perhaps never will be https://aiweekly.co/alerts/lilie-cuts-text-to-image-gfd-14-points-vs-pixel-baseline AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T18:12:01+00:00 LILIE cuts text-to-image gFD 14 points vs pixel baseline https://aiweekly.co/alerts/convexllm-grounds-audio-in-frozen-text-embeddings-for-speech-lms AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T18:12:01+00:00 ConvexLLM grounds audio in frozen text embeddings for speech LMs https://aiweekly.co/alerts/study-deceiving-ai-cuts-video-answer-accuracy-up-to-32 AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T18:12:01+00:00 Study: deceiving AI cuts video-answer accuracy up to 32% 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https://aiweekly.co/alerts/anthropic-lobbied-pope-leos-aides-over-claude-consciousness AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T12:12:01+00:00 Anthropic lobbied Pope Leo's aides over Claude consciousness https://aiweekly.co/alerts/dino-forcing-cuts-flow-matching-training-to-half-the-epochs AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T12:12:01+00:00 Dino Forcing cuts flow-matching training to half the epochs https://aiweekly.co/alerts/seth-block-tononi-ai-isnt-conscious-and-probably-wont-be AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T12:12:01+00:00 Seth, Block, Tononi: AI isn't conscious, and probably won't be https://aiweekly.co/alerts/seth-block-tononi-ai-isnt-conscious-perhaps-never-will-be AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T12:12:01+00:00 Seth, Block, Tononi: AI isn't conscious, perhaps never will be https://aiweekly.co/alerts/deepseek-open-sources-deepinfer-its-v41-flash-serving-stack AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T11:04:11+00:00 DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its V4.1-Flash serving stack https://aiweekly.co/alerts/memt-10-memory-native-llms-cut-kv-storage-66x-at-128k-tokens AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T09:36:31+00:00 MemT-1.0 Memory-Native LLMs Cut KV Storage 66x at 128K Tokens https://aiweekly.co/alerts/artificial-analysis-ships-aa-personalitybench-healthbench-leaderboards AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T09:36:31+00:00 Artificial Analysis Ships AA-PersonalityBench, HealthBench Leaderboards https://aiweekly.co/alerts/galbot-public-scores-miss-how-fast-vlms-self-improve-on-robots AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T09:36:31+00:00 Galbot: Public Scores Miss How Fast VLMs Self-Improve on Robots https://aiweekly.co/alerts/robovalue-tests-robotic-value-models-on-15-sim-and-20-real-tasks AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T09:36:31+00:00 RoboValue tests robotic value models on 15 sim and 20 real tasks https://aiweekly.co/alerts/anthropic-lobbied-pope-leos-advisers-over-ai-consciousness AI Weekly en 2026-10-20T09:12:02+00:00 Anthropic lobbied Pope Leo's advisers over AI consciousness 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